HOWTO: Parse URLs using Javascript to extract GET variables and more

Most server side languages have inbuilt capabillity of reading GET variables passed via the URL.

But in two (or more) cases, we may need to read these variabes on the client side using javascript. This might be when:

• You need to find out what the server did/will do on recipt of a particular URL (usually the one on which you currently are)
• You are building a dynamic AJAX based website, and you are making dynamically loaded content linkable using # in the URL (example: http://jrharshath.com/blog#Article?articleid=12345).

I am currently building an AJAX based application on jswaf and it faces second problem, so I wrote a script for this express purpose: to parse URL like strings into BaseURL and key-value paired parameters.

The code is located here, and a demo is located here.

The code is free to borrow. Just provide credits if you do, and drop me a line if you like it, or would like to learn how to use it.

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